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| | A man amuck - The Boston Globe |
 | | A LITTLE MORE THAN 50 years ago, in a Dublin known for its wild young and its fidgety devout, and a Europe still struggling after years of war, a holy terror by the name of Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield was inflicted upon the world. |
 | | Rich son and busted husband, wife-beater and maudlin romantic, personal friend to Christ and bitter foe to any Papist worth his weight in holy pendants-few knew what to make of him then, even fewer now, but the fact that he's never left us is a measure of his worth. |
 | | Donleavy, who like his protagonist went to Dublin to flunk law at Trinity under the GI Bill, unsuccessfully submitted his bawdy manuscript to more than 50 publishers before he took the advice of Brendan Behan, Ireland's patron saint of gleeful blasphemy, and sent it to the fabled Olympia Press. |
| www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/02/19/a_man_amuck?mode=PF (1318 words) |
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